Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty

Mingus Big Band: I Am Three

by Paul Olson
June 6, 2005

Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty I Am Three Sunnyside Records 2005

I Am Three, the debut CD on the Sue Mingus Music imprint (distributed as part of Sunnyside's Confluences Series), pays tribute to the late Charles Mingus by bringing together the three principal Mingus repertory bands: Mingus Big Band, Mingus Orchestra and Mingus Dynasty. Although the groups were each recorded separately in October and November of 2004, this is no compilation album; there's a ...